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Burning Bush
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burning bush, name for a North American plant of the family Celastraceae (staff tree staff tree, common name for some temperate members of the Celastraceae, a family of trees and shrubs (many of them climbing forms), widely distributed except in polar regions.
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 family). The scriptural burning bush not consumed by fire (Ex. 3.2) is sometimes associated with a bramble or thorn and was adopted by the Presbyterian Church as an emblem of its early persecution. Burning bush is classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Celastrales, family Celastraceae.
burning bush
Old Testament the bush that burned without being consumed, from which God spoke to Moses (Exodus 3:2--4)

burning bush
form taken by the Angel of the Lord to speak to Moses. [O.T.: Exodus 3:2-3]
See : Fire

Burning Bush 

in biblical mythology, a thorny bush that burned without being consumed, through which Yahweh appeared to Moses, calling him to lead his people out of Egyptian bondage into the Promised Land.



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Burning bushes and pillars of fire have their place, but God often speaks much more subtly and through unexpected channels.
Instead they dragged away burning bushes which were threatening to engulf the wooden building.
The same vehicle was scrambled to Northfield, ABERDEEN to deal with burning bushes.
 
 
 
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